00:05:33.020I really don't think he does. I think he makes his statements and usually people move. And last night, it looked like maybe they were moving because they came out with this 10-point proposal. But there's two parts of it that are just unworkable, totally unworkable. The first part of the proposal is a guarantee that Iran would not be attacked again and an end to Israeli strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon, lifting all of the sanctions as well.
00:26:30.820But it is the way we look at danger, and it's a house of mirrors, okay, because it narrows danger.
00:26:41.400We stood up the Department of Homeland Security, we put the TSA in, every traveler, every plane, we had layered intelligence, top of intelligence, all of it still, you know, I guess makes sense for that kind of threat, but we didn't do anything.
00:26:59.580We spent long hours preparing for one pattern, and when you do that, you miss the other patterns, and the other pattern doesn't come with flying airplanes into buildings.
00:27:12.480It doesn't want the attention because attention makes you stand up and go, uh-oh, we need to defend against this.
00:27:21.000so our special tonight does not take on muslims as as whole it takes on islamists
00:27:29.920people who are very very clear barbary pirates iran that kind of an attitude in their own words
00:27:39.000their faith is not meant to stay personal it is meant to become the government system globally
00:27:46.340okay you can read it you can read it in court records internal memos speeches uh sermons that
00:27:54.000they're giving in the mosques of america we have all of it and they assume that time is on their
00:28:00.240side we think in election cycles they don't so the method doesn't look like what we're expected
00:28:07.500we're trained to expect planes blowing up in the sky that's what we're trained
00:28:12.380and when that doesn't happen everything else seems like a conspiracy theory because why
00:28:19.000wouldn't they just blow up a building because that's stupid quite honestly it is really stupid
00:28:23.040our immigration our speech our courts local politics all of those things all of those things
00:28:31.680have become our weakness but they used to be part of what made our country work but because
00:28:38.540We are not paying attention. They're being used.
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00:41:18.520i mean i think my manhood is being questioned here in the studio by ricky
00:41:24.360i mean i you know i said i think i could climb a seven foot thousand seven seven thousand foot
00:41:30.580mountain and she said not with mountain lions and i'm like where were the mountain lions what
00:41:34.420are you even talking about a metaphor well you didn't make the irgc you didn't make that clear
00:41:39.680and i also wouldn't have a broken ankle i think the guy had a broken ankle you have a broken back
00:41:44.280We're going to get we're going to get we're going to get the full story of what happened yesterday, including the red, white and blue striped American Eagle underwear that I mean, did they leave their underwear behind for the IRGC to find and stand?
00:42:01.960And if it was that Photoshop, what is that?
00:48:07.140I have to say, as a fighter pilot, I've had goosebumps for the last 24 hours.
00:48:11.960Just watching the details of this mission unfold, I watched the president's press conference, obviously, yesterday, and I think you're right and very astute in saying how the president reacted.
00:48:22.060It was just all about our ground forces and our air forces, and I'm amazed.
00:48:26.900I think we're going to walk through this step by step, but overall, I just think it's an incredible testament to the Americans fighting men and women and what we've been able to accomplish in training and in war.
00:48:36.760and it's and it's a testimony to when a politician just lets the experts do picks the right x experts
00:48:47.440to lead and then lets them do what they can do and just unleash just go get the guy bring him back
00:48:54.680it's amazing what they can accomplish amazing and i was in as i was as impressed with this
00:49:03.240almost as impressed with sending somebody to the moon last week it's not just this mission it's
00:49:10.620pretty much everything the military's done under this current administration operation midnight
00:49:15.120hammer what we did in venezuela i mean the level of execution we went into venezuela and came out
00:49:20.700without a single loss of life and so what you just said glenn is totally right when you have a
00:49:25.700command and control structure that that moves authority down to the low levels which is where
00:49:30.120it should be down to the warfighter level you have unbelievable execution it's a real change
00:49:34.900of pace from what we've seen in the past okay so ed let's start at the beginning first i have to ask
00:49:41.000you have you ever had to eject out of a fighter no and thank god god is good so the last it is
00:49:47.860literally like the worst case scenario i mean what dude 4-4 bravo experienced over the last three
00:49:53.520days is the worst i mean it's like coming out of the airplane having to survive i know we're going
00:49:58.120to walk through all this step-by-step, but I've never ejected. Thank God. Like I have a roommate
00:50:02.420who ejected, went out of control, completely out of control in an F-18, ejected, was recovered
00:50:08.060safely over the sands of Yuma, Arizona. And he, Glenn, he was an inch and a half smaller,
00:50:12.980like literally smaller. His spine had compressed so much that he was smaller. So it's not a good
00:50:19.840deal okay so they're flying and we don't know how they were shot down um we i thought we had
00:50:28.780taken care of all of their um you know their rockets and everything else do we know how they
00:50:34.340were shot down so what did the iranians use as to the weapon but what i can tell you so i was in
00:50:40.400a i was flying in iraq we had ultimate air superiority in iraq when i was there in 2004
00:50:45.7002005. That didn't mean we weren't occasionally getting shot at by surface-to-air systems.
00:50:51.780So when we go in to fight a big war like we came into Iran, what fighter pilots will do
00:50:56.860and what the military planners will do is called rolling back the IADS. That's the
00:51:01.580Integrated Air Defense System. You start with the big systems. We're talking about
00:51:04.960systems that can shoot 100, 150 miles out. You start with the communication nodes.
00:51:09.600And really what you're left with, and you're pretty much left with this for the remainder of
00:51:13.720the war are individuals carrying shoulder-launched surface-to-air, infrared-guided surface-to-air
00:51:20.080systems, so there's no radar signature, there's no electronic signature that we can target,
00:51:25.260and small arms and AAA. For the most part, our tactics keep us above what's called the WEZ,
00:51:31.200the weapons engagement envelope of those systems. So flying 20,000 feet and above or 25,000 feet
00:51:36.800and above, typically you're outside of that zone. My suspicion is that these F-15Es, which are
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00:51:42.500our strike aircraft, their air to ground aircraft were probably flying low enough to look for
00:51:48.220targets. In other words, they were trying to get eyeballs on maybe a moving target,
00:51:52.200maybe something that they were trying to find on their ground so that they could direct air
00:51:55.220on top of that. And while they were doing that, they took fire from an infrared surface to air
00:52:00.520system. I'll bet you probably 95 to 99%, but it was an infrared guided system like press and SA-18
00:52:06.660that was either Iranian or provided potentially by the Russians.
00:52:32.420Yeah, I mean, so you have an airplane.
00:52:33.820So I mean, kind of walk through the sequence of what would have happened.
00:52:36.660So they're flying their mission. Both of them are probably looking out the cockpit in one direction or another.
00:52:41.620Typically, one pilot or the wingman will pick up an air-to-ground signature of a launch.
00:52:46.660Typically, you'll see the smoke or the corkscrewing smoke that comes out of the ground, and then you begin evasive maneuvers.
00:52:52.420Typically, for this kind of system, you would be putting out chaff and flares that's designed to defeat the infrared seeker.
00:52:58.860In this case, obviously, it wasn't defeated, or it was, but it just got close enough to where the blast radius of the weapon was enough to disable the airplane.
00:53:07.260And then at that point, you begin an ejection sequence.
00:53:10.660Still TBD as far as, like, how quickly they had to eject.
00:53:14.520It sounds like he sustained injuries on ejection, and usually that's a sign that they're at pretty high speed.
00:53:19.140If you have an aircraft that's disabled and you can slow it down, you are a lot more survivable in an ejection.
00:53:26.140But, for example, if your airplane's spinning or if it's going at a high rate of speed, if you pull the handle, you're going to hit the wind stream at 400 to 500 miles an hour, which is like getting hit by a plane.
00:53:36.280And to put it into context, the moment you pull the handle, 20 G's erupt underneath your bottom.
00:53:43.260That's enough, by the way, to kill a person if it's sustained.
00:53:53.300So you're like getting rocketed out of this thing as quickly as possible.
00:53:57.760And there's injuries sustained just from the G-forces.
00:54:00.760I'm talking about just in training when people go through ejection sequences, they can get injured in that way.
00:54:06.920But now you're in the wind stream and you're going 400, 500 miles an hour, sometimes faster, and all of a sudden you're hitting this wind.
00:54:13.280And a lot of times what happens to guys is they break arms or legs because their arms literally flail out into the wind.
00:54:19.340And so they train us as pilots to pull our arms and legs and to find an ejection.
00:54:23.300position. And so this pilot, it said that he had 44 Bravo, had back injuries. I would imagine those
00:54:31.560injuries were sustained either from the ejection itself, which is probably the most likely, or
00:54:36.580from the parachute landing. Because remember, now that you've sustained 20 Gs, now that you're in
00:54:41.080the wind stream, you're in a parachute. You know, the pilots, we always say it's better to be
00:54:45.540swinging in the sheets than singing with the angels. You're better off, you know, in a parachute
00:54:49.900than you are in an airplane that's about to crash.
00:54:52.020But as you're on your way to the ground,
00:54:54.080then you have to land and you're coming down pretty fast.
00:54:56.960And so the injuries were either sustained on the ejection
00:54:59.820or on the landing, and then you have to escape.
00:55:02.060I'm not sure how they got so far apart,
00:55:03.720but it is common for the pilot and the backseater named the Wizzo
00:55:06.840to be some distance apart because the ejection sequence,
00:55:10.080not only does it send them in at different times,
00:55:12.200there's a little bit of a delay between the backseat and the front seat
00:55:15.460so that they'll separate from each other.
00:55:17.020But often one will go right, one will go left,
00:55:19.440And then by the time you hit the airstream and then maneuver your canopy, you could be miles apart.
00:55:24.860So when you eject, there's got to be an automatic system that sends a beacon out to the military says, hey, we got a plane down and here's where each pilot is.
00:55:34.520Or do you have to activate that yourself?
00:55:37.420So, OK, so the airplane itself has a beacon.
00:55:39.820So what happens the moment you eject is both seats come out, both pilots head in one direction or the other.
00:55:46.840And then the aircraft itself ejects, like, you know, when we talk about the black box in a civilian aircraft, the aircraft itself ejects its memory system.
00:55:58.340And so there's literally like a box that comes flying off the airplane that carries with it the memory of essentially the last day of flying so that investigators, once they find that, can do their investigation and find out what went wrong with the airplane.
00:56:12.080That box itself also carries an emergency beacon along with it.
00:56:17.440And so the rescuers can find that piece of the aircraft, but the pilots themselves aren't broadcasting a beacon.
00:56:24.620And that is obviously for their safety purposes.
00:56:26.540It's designed so that the pilot has a choice whether they can turn their radio on and off.
00:56:32.120The survival gear that a pilot will have is typically a survival vest.
00:56:35.020It has like minimal food, some chewing gum for real.
00:56:38.080There's literally chewing gum in there.
00:56:39.360a little tiny bottle of water each pilot will have a radio that's essentially a satellite radio
00:56:44.020designed to connect with the with the sea star forces uh and then they'll have a sidearm so
00:56:48.540when i was in combat in iraq i carried a nine millimeter pistol uh which just you know is like
00:56:52.960completely worthless unless it's like you and one other person uh that 15 round magazine is not
00:56:58.480going to get you anywhere uh in combat it's probably last resort and truthfully uh you're
00:57:03.240about to die if you're going to use your pistol and so you're armed with all of this especially
00:57:06.860a nine millimeter yeah nine mil i mean some of the guys by the way uh since you know i was a marine
00:57:11.980a lot of the guys carry 45s you know because of much more stopping power but like uh anyway so
00:57:17.700the military gives you a veretta this italian this small italian made uh weapon uh and you carry it
00:57:24.280thinking i'm never going to shoot anybody with these small italian nine millimeter rounds um
00:57:30.280you know but you carry it anyway uh and so uh yeah so the pilot it's up to him whether he's
00:57:35.180going to turn his radio on or not and typically what will happen is you hit the ground you release
00:57:40.540your parachute that's really important because otherwise it'll literally drag you across the
00:57:43.880ground you secure any gear that you have so you don't like leave anything behind and then you set
00:57:48.020you find cover or concealment like you try to find a place where you can hide before you bring
00:57:52.800out your radio because the moment you start broadcasting especially depending on the gear
00:57:56.540that you're using there's forces that can triangulate in on your position and so obviously
00:58:01.080So you want to be judicious as to how you use that radio.
00:58:05.680So then let me take a break and we'll pick it up when he is now trying to find some place to hide.
00:58:12.040I think that's the logical place to go.
00:58:13.800Trying some place to hide, hikes up 7,000 feet on the side of a mountain and puts himself between two rocks and becomes part of the mountain and is almost invisible, except somehow or another to the CIA.
00:58:28.400and I want to go through that with you and what we can talk about what we do know which is very
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01:00:42.040Your ability to think in a survival situation.
01:00:45.560So I was never a POW. Thank God I was never even chased.
01:00:50.900But I did go to what we call our SEER school, S-E-R-E, stands for Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape.
01:00:58.440You literally, Glenn, they put you into a POW camp for three days.
01:01:01.860It's no joke. Like, they're waterboarding. I shouldn't even be admitting this right now.
01:01:06.580Like, that was before it was not prohibited.
01:01:09.680But it was a big deal. Like, you were literally treated like a prisoner.
01:01:12.760and what you learned in that school more than anything is just don't get captured like do
01:01:17.800anything you can uh not to get captured especially in a country like iran that's not following the
01:01:23.760geneva convention when it comes to prisoners you know been a horror show yeah i mean you know you're
01:01:29.840going to get tortured and so uh and so this is a big deal and by the way back to what we said in
01:01:34.600the beginning about god is good this this whole situation could have been a 1979 level desert one
01:01:40.780oh yeah i mean it could have been a disaster oh yeah and and so i mean we could have lost
01:01:45.040multiple aircraft we could have lost multiple of our airmen marines and soldiers and every
01:01:50.260we got out unscathed it was just really amazing the whole mission so when do we send out this
01:01:56.720giant force did they did we wait were we planning immediately do we have plans like this because
01:02:03.040this was elaborate we send these 130s out very heavy planes they land in the sand and i gotta
01:02:11.320believe i mean i'm old enough to remember what happened in this desert you know in 1979 you just
01:02:16.720mentioned it we didn't get those we didn't get those uh helicopters up because of the sand so we
01:02:23.080land these gigantic c-130s i hear we had to make kind of a tarmac overnight to get some place for
01:02:31.460for them to land did we ever think they could get off that thing with all the sand and rocks and you
01:02:37.800don't land jets in something like that and expect it to take off do you it's a pretty amazing
01:02:43.960beginning to end the operation now keep in mind there are units in the marine or in the armed
01:02:48.440forces that trained their entire lives for what's called sea star combat search and rescue like
01:02:54.180that's their job that's what they train for these are missions that are literally in a box and
01:03:00.180they're going to come out and say, okay, we're going to execute, you know,
01:03:03.200this kind of mission. And they know it requires these kinds of airplanes,
01:03:05.820this kind of forward arming base and everything.
01:03:08.600And so what was created in the desert is called a FARP.
01:03:11.120It's important for me to spell that because it sounds like, you know,
01:03:15.280so it's S-A-R-P, which stands for forward arming and refueling point.
01:03:20.320Literally they will take C-130s, land them in the middle of the desert,
01:03:24.000certain cases without any, any air runway at all.
01:03:27.520There are airplanes that are designed to do this, get in short landing.
01:03:31.540Often they'll have JATO bottles, which are literally rockets that they attach to the side of the airplane so that they can take off.
01:03:37.460And they will stretch fuel lines directly out of the airplane so that the helicopters can come in, refuel, and go back looking for the aircraft.
01:03:45.600And so to answer your question about how quickly, like the moment the aircraft is down and they have a location, assets are already airborne.
01:03:51.400So there are airborne assets, helicopters, typically C-130s, and jets flying around, literally listening on an emergency frequency, ready to listen for a pilot or to find his location.
01:04:03.440So we have less than a minute here, and then we'll pick up the story again.
01:04:09.180So that signal was him when he was secure.
01:04:13.260He lit up his radio, and all he transmitted was God is good, which was their signal.
01:07:47.320And I'm like, I can't even believe it.
01:07:49.040So we have great engineers, unbelievable engineers here in the United States.
01:07:54.420And we have incredible products. And I think it's interesting how the president did that yesterday.
01:07:58.140I can almost see the CIA folks rolling their eyes, you know, like, oh, my gosh, is he going to tell everybody, you know, about what we've got?
01:08:05.560But clearly we have communication devices, ability, location, potentially using drones or something like that, that significantly above whatever the enemy may have.
01:08:16.940i mean it's it's quite obvious with how we're targeting everybody there's no hiding place on
01:08:22.780earth if the united states of america wants to get you they're going to get you um let me ask
01:08:27.800you some stupid questions first of all dude 44 the call sign tell where is that from so when
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01:08:35.700so when squadrons go overseas they don't take their uh conus continental united states call
01:08:42.000signs with them. So for example, I was here in San Diego with a squadron, the MFA 242. We were
01:08:47.340the bats. When we went to war, we changed our name so that people who were listening on the radio
01:08:51.900couldn't identify the squadron that was flying. It's just a clandestine thing. And so often the
01:08:57.640squadron will pick their call sign. And so clearly this F-15 squadron picked dude. I believe it's a
01:09:03.180reference to the Big Lebowski movie, you know, the dude or the Duderino, if you're not into that
01:09:08.800whole brevity thing it's just a fighter pilot joke really uh that's become now pretty famous so
01:09:13.980dude 44 was the aircraft call sign dude 44a or alpha is the pilot dude 44 bravo the guy that
01:09:21.400we're talking about is the backseater um there is a picture of apparently these igr you know irgc
01:09:31.020fighters or just you know iranian fighters that are holding up a pair of american eagle
01:09:38.040red white and blue striped underpants and they said that's their that's the pilot's under
01:09:44.460why would the pilot take off his underwear
01:09:47.460you know i mean it's just it's almost like a calling card at this point clen it's like you
01:09:54.600know i went to iraq and all i left behind was my dirty underwear uh i i i have to say i think the
01:10:03.080underwear thing might just be a bit of an internet but i can't imagine a scenario where
01:10:07.800a wounded pilot climbing a seven thousand foot mountain uh trying to evade capture with his
01:10:12.100nine millimeter on his uh thing is just going to like drop his clothes and accidentally leave his
01:10:17.440underwear there so i think that right i mean that okay all right because that made no sense to me
01:10:23.560unless you were like crap now i'm gonna i know i'm gonna end up in germany in the hospital and
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01:10:27.960i don't have clean underwear i gotta get rid of this underwear i don't i mean that's the only
01:10:31.660i could think of um i think that a professional air force pilot would be able to keep his hands
01:10:35.960on you know right yes yes you would um i heard in the um in the briefing the president was talking
01:10:44.820and he said you don't understand the contingency is on the contingencies when the planes couldn't
01:10:49.080get up they couldn't get the 100 guys out so they had to have helicopters come in um and he said
01:10:54.420they rebuilt the engines on the ground in 15 minutes do you know anything about that what
01:11:01.240was he talking about? So I don't, the president at times with regard to hyperbole can maybe just
01:11:08.300go a little past what may have happened. There's no question in my mind that they were repairing
01:11:13.400those aircraft on the ground. That's one of the benefits of that forward arming refueling point
01:11:17.260that FARP is you bring in gear, you bring in maintenance folks, you bring in refueling,
01:11:22.320you're able to do oil, you know, fix oil or like, you know, changed little chip detectors or
01:11:26.640whatever. There's a lot that they can do on the ground there. And so there's no question in my
01:11:30.080mind, Glenn, they were actually fixing the aircraft down there on the ground. I thought it was
01:11:33.660interesting, the president's terminology yesterday, because we blew up the C-130s. They couldn't get
01:11:38.620in the air. And so we obviously threw a satchel of C-4 inside there and just blew those aircraft
01:11:45.800up for ComSec purposes. The president's exact words were, we blew them to smithereens, which
01:11:50.660I thought was a perfectly presidential way to describe that. What do you have to say to people
01:11:57.540that are i mean up until yesterday we're reporting americans reporting that this whole thing was
01:12:04.920uh we were trying to kill our own pilot first of all i don't know about you but if if i were in a
01:12:13.060situation where i were going to be taken hostage i'd prefer a missile an american missile hit me
01:12:18.340before taken hostage and i'm forced to say things on camera that i would never say unless i was
01:12:24.380being tortured i i mean kill me but that's not what was happening this was an amazing thing
01:12:29.640how do you respond to people who are still today reporting that yeah i mean you know i think forrest
01:12:36.560gump said it best when he said stupid is as stupid does i mean the sad the sad thing about the
01:12:42.020internet is you know everybody with an opinion whether it's a good opinion or not get to share
01:12:45.760it i mean what what we saw over the last two days it's like i just feel like hey can we just give
01:12:50.140these guys a win you know i mean like whatever your political beliefs are uh whatever your
01:12:54.100conspiracy view of the military or whatever we're doing like just give the guy a win i mean this is
01:12:59.340going to be a movie within the next year i mean like literally probably next summer we're going
01:13:03.780to see a movie called dude four four and it's going to walk through this thing step by step
01:13:08.180and so i say like just give them a win say hey like great job we got out of there with the pilot
01:13:13.520not only that but we got out of there with no casualties that's unbelievable i mean with the
01:13:18.160amount of opposition that we may have been facing and the amount of people that we put in there in
01:13:22.600in night and day in the throes of death the fact that we got out of there with with no casualties
01:13:27.980is just like a testament to god's goodness to our country right now i have to tell you it says
01:13:32.940something also to a nation and an ideology you know these 12ers they'll blow up your children
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01:13:39.240for allah they will strap bombs to your children and blow them up um this shows the difference we
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01:13:46.900value life every single life has there been another country that has done anything close to
01:13:55.060this the amount of money i mean a hundred a hundred uh soldiers flown into the ground two
01:14:02.600airplanes two airplanes destroyed how many millions of dollars were spent trying to get this
01:14:08.660one guy i don't has there ever been another country that has done this and what message does
01:14:14.920it send to the rest of the world and our enemies it's i think it's a fundamental difference glenn
01:14:21.180it's also a fundamental difficulty i'll talk about that in just a second but you know the
01:14:25.100difference when i joined the marine corps and went to boot camp and marine corps boot camp is no joke
01:14:28.740you are taught from day one you never leave a man behind you never leave a man behind
01:14:33.500and the number of men i've carried that you know firemen carried in a simulated training mission
01:14:39.940because you never ever leave someone behind even if their body's laying there dead you don't leave
01:14:43.840behind. It's an American ethos that I don't think we share with anyone. It's just the way that we
01:14:49.280fight wars. And it's difficult, and it causes more challenges than we would like to admit,
01:14:55.720but it's a huge part of our ethos. And when you juxtapose our country versus the country that
01:15:00.860we're fighting in Iran, it's the total opposite. You have a country there that is literally the
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01:15:04.760leadership is fighting for survival, and they will sacrifice every single citizen of their
01:15:09.560country so that they might live i'm not kidding you the last person alive will be the new baby
01:15:15.420ayatollah jr or whatever which one the latest ayatollah they will sacrifice everyone and that
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01:15:21.080is a fundamental difference between the american ethos and i think it speaks um i think it really
01:15:25.880does speak to the character and the value of our country that we still have not just that we were
01:15:30.240founded on but that we still have um you know the president spoke and i've got about 1400 questions
01:15:38.020So I want to try to move through these quickly, but the president spoke about, um, you know, uh, somebody who leaked that we had a guy and, and honestly, I'm not mad at the president or I'm not mad at the press for that. I think it was a logical question. Did you, did we get the second guy? I'm mad at the person who had the information that says, no, we didn't.
01:15:58.540and we're looking for him and that's who the president is mad at that that put that guy and
01:16:05.300this mission in grave danger correct big son by the way that's traitorous conduct if i'm the guy
01:16:12.980on the ground and i lose my life because someone talked that's traitorous conduct and i think the
01:16:17.540president is right to be upset about that it is we are in a battle space where communication is
01:16:23.160part of part of warfare wasn't like that you know 50 or 100 years ago because communication lines
01:16:29.000move so slowly but now because of the way things move so quickly communication is literally like
01:16:33.140another armed forces it's that important traitorous i mean that's the only thing in the constitution
01:16:38.840that carries uh a penalty that's traitorous yeah i mean i think you're you're giving up
01:16:47.280You're giving up secrets. So the definition of top secret is that it is potentially loss of life or catastrophic loss of national security.
01:16:57.440And I think that falls right into there. If you're giving up secrets that could lead to loss of life, that's traitorous conduct, in my opinion.
01:17:04.660Right. And that is not the that's not the journalist. That's the guy who gave the journalist the information.
01:17:10.700so tonight can i present a a concept to you you know the president doesn't bluff and the president
01:17:20.260also doesn't make things up on the fly he's been looking at this i mean he's on record since the
01:17:25.4801980s and one of the things he said you know if they misbehave what i would do this like 1983 or
01:17:31.280something if what i would do is i'd go in and i'd take karg island and i would just declare it ours
01:17:35.700and i'd take the oil and that's that's it enough enough is enough he is he has other countries that
01:17:42.580are not helping us and he said go get your own oil we've got ours tonight what do you see as
01:17:49.100legitimate targets and what is the what are the odds that we just take cargillin and we're fine
01:17:56.340with our oil i let everybody else get theirs yeah i think glenn he's going to talk about it tonight
01:18:01.680in a past tense. I actually think we're on our way into Cargill. And right now, initial reports
01:18:06.000right now through Reuters is that we're actually attacking, like literally, as we speak. I think
01:18:11.760the president will talk about it. I mean, he does threats, but he talks detail in the after the fact.
01:18:19.280And I'll bet you tonight, he's going to talk about how we've already started an operation on Cargill.
01:18:23.660And I think it's the most logical next step. Like you said, by the way, this war is one of
01:18:30.020greatest things that ever happened to our relationship with nato it made really clear
01:18:34.020it's like you always say like you know your friends are when times are tough you know and
01:18:38.980um that's that's completely redefined our role in nato which i think is very healthy for us at this
01:18:43.300moment too can you just tell me quickly legitimate target what's the difference between a legitimate
01:18:50.740target a legitimate power strike and one that's not what are legitimate targets very good question
01:18:58.340By the way, this is the debate of the day where there's lawyers all over the news right now talking about this.
01:19:04.240You've got the Geneva Convention, which basically prohibits the hitting of targets that are essential for civilian survival.
01:19:10.540And so if you hit a water site and people can't get water, that would be a violation of Geneva Convention, which clearly we subscribe to.
01:19:25.540That's correct. So for example, if you have a power plant or a water desalination plant that also houses military gear, that's free game.
01:19:34.140And so that's why, like the lawyers, this is a big day for military lawyers, because this is all the kind of thing that they're discussing.
01:19:40.780But that island, in my opinion, is totally fair game, especially since you've been getting shot from it.
01:19:47.540And do you think we try to hold it? I mean, just declare it ours? Put a flag over it?
01:29:51.800So I would have never guessed that Canada would actually, I don't know, elect a bunch of officials that would say, hey, all those guns that you used to have, we're now going to come and collect them.
01:30:07.760And then actually kind of talk about going door to door.
01:30:10.780I mean, they don't have the people to do that.
01:30:13.360How are they going to grab these guns from people?
01:30:16.160I don't know, but it's very frightening, obviously. I mean, the reality is the Liberal government in Ottawa has brought in these crazy laws designating otherwise legal hunting rifles, sports shooting rifles, etc., to be prohibited weapons.
01:30:39.240First, they gave us a grace period, as you mentioned.
01:30:41.400So we were allowed to keep them in our gun safes, but we couldn't take them out.
01:30:45.540Then they implemented, which just included a buyback program where they would give us a little bit of money if we all showed up with our guns.
01:31:03.760So now we're all facing this deadline that if we don't turn in our guns by October 31st of this year, we will all be criminals and we will be charged and jailed for possession of a prohibited weapon.
01:31:18.480It's so many things, Glenn, that are happening north of your border are just so difficult to believe, but they're real.
01:31:27.800And there's a lot of trouble up in Canada.
01:31:30.700And that's why so many here in Alberta want to get out and form our own country and get away from this madness.
01:31:37.700So, I mean, 2% of Canadians actually, you know, abided by the deadline and actually said, OK, here's my gun.
01:34:03.840So now they've come up with this workaround where,
01:34:06.660And as you know, it's remarkable. It started off with people with cancer and terminal illness at the end of life. And then they started shifting to people who had various kinds of injuries that might be expensive to treat, like cost. And now they're moving it, as you're aware, into mental health issues.
01:34:28.200So if you're depressed because you can't afford to live in our country because of the inflation and reckless government policies up here, and you're feeling down on life, they're moving into offering government-assisted suicide.
01:34:49.400You know, socialized medicine, you know, worked in the Netherlands for a while.
01:34:54.400It doesn't work now because you had a very homogeneous kind of society.
01:34:59.140Everybody was on the same page, very much like Canada for a while.
01:35:02.700You had a small enough population that it could generally work.
01:35:06.600But once you started importing people and you just put them into the hospitals, put them into the systems, and there's nobody paying for it, no doctors, no expansion, of course you're not going to have enough medicine.
01:35:20.600I mean, is there anyone talking common sense like that?
01:35:24.560I mean, I know you don't have, like, for instance, talk radio, etc. up there.
01:35:28.880Is there anyone talking this common sense in Canada?
01:35:33.360There is in our alternative media, but the legacy media, the phenomenon we have in Canada,
01:35:39.060is that the equivalents, all of the equivalents in Canada of a Fox News or a CNN or a New York Times,
01:35:47.180they all receive substantial to the tune of many, several hundreds of millions of dollars of government grants.
01:35:55.740This is a new phenomena that started about five or eight years ago.
01:35:59.760And so they're basically all extensions of the government.
01:36:04.260If I've ever been interviewed and I say something that's really critical of the government,
01:36:09.500it never gets printed because the editor says to the reporter, yeah, that's true.
01:36:13.580I might agree with Mr. Wilson. But if we print that, we're going to get a call from Ottawa and we're going to get our funding cut. We're going to have to do more layoffs. So we've lost our freedom of expression up here, at least freedom of the media to have these serious discussions. But people are alive to what's happening and increasingly concerned, at least in the Western provinces, for sure.
01:36:34.020So what is happening to Alberta? I mean, I just saw that you have the numbers now to force this, uh, onto the, uh, onto the, the vote next fall where you, you could break away as a province and start your own country.
01:36:53.140A, is there enough support in Alberta to actually get that done? B, do you actually think Canada would allow you to do that? I mean, you are the Texas of Canada.
01:37:02.920we are and what's unique about about canada is it's the only government or country rather
01:37:11.580in the western world that has a legal process for a region or a province in this case
01:37:18.580to go through a voting process to become independent and leave the country and form
01:37:23.140its own you know nation state and that's that is unique and it's a process that's set out by our
01:37:29.680the Supreme Court of Canada, in a 1998 case, and it lays the process so that if a clear majority
01:37:36.660of voters within a province vote on a clear question for independence, that triggers two
01:37:43.280routes to independence. One is the parties have to enter into good faith negotiations, meaning
01:37:49.480Alberta needs to go into a meeting room with the federal government and the other provinces and
01:37:54.340say, all right, we've got national parks here, we've got military bases in Alberta,
01:37:58.560we'll pay you the federal government certain amount of money for those bases and national parks
01:38:04.020you owe us this much money federal government for our pension plans and other things and
01:38:08.820and hash it all out and then the province is independent and it's a free country
01:38:13.320the other path is if the parties don't enter into good faith negotiations and that's something we're
01:38:19.240very concerned about here in Alberta is you can do unilateral declaration of independence
01:38:25.940However, that relies on international recognition. So if the United States and other countries are prepared to recognize Alberta independence, it creates a clear pathway.
01:38:39.420And what's remarkable about our government here, Glenn, is you may or may not recall the controversy last September over international recognition of the state of Palestine.
01:38:50.500Our prime minister, Mark Carney, came out without consulting with our House of Commons or anything and announced that the government of Canada would unilaterally recognize the independence of the state of Palestine, even though it doesn't have any borders or anything else.
01:39:05.840So we sat here in Alberta and watched this and we're going, wait a minute, our prime minister just renewed and refreshed this international concept and international law of other nation states giving recognition to breakaway states.
01:39:20.940And we're on a path here in Alberta to follow that route.
01:39:25.360So, um, well, I would just, my recommendation to you is hurry before Donald Trump leaves office because he'd recognize you guys.
01:39:34.240i don't know if anyone else would but he would well and and and as he should because you know
01:39:40.960remember that alberta uh you know this this province equivalent in size to texas immediately
01:39:47.800north of your montana border we have the third largest reserve of oil in the world
01:39:52.880and we are in fact the largest supplier of oil uh to the united states i know there's a perception
01:40:00.460by some Americans that you get most of the oil
01:40:03.360that you bring in from Venezuela and the Middle East.
01:40:29.120It's an importantly fertilizer. You know, your farmers in Iowa and on the plains are very worried about fertilizer. Well, here's your your neighbor to the north, Alberta, that wants to become independent, wants to become your best friend. And guess what else? We're that supplier of fertilizer.
01:40:46.440so um what i'm hopeful is we now have a date set glenn for the actual vote on independence
01:40:55.560and it's going to be october 19th october 19th interesting think about this what did we first
01:41:01.680start talking about the october 31st deadline for the gun gun grab it's it's so october's
01:41:07.260month up here so on october 19th albertans might be voting and hopefully will be voting
01:41:15.220to become an independent country, and the United States will be getting a new neighbor,
01:41:20.520your best friend, and we're culturally aligned. We have shared values. We have far more shared
01:41:26.340values from Alberta with the United States and Americans than we do with these leftists in
01:41:31.940Ottawa. We're so done with them, with all of their harmful policies. Glenn, we have the third largest
01:41:38.600reserve of oil and gas in the world the world needs our products but the these guys in ottawa
01:41:45.580they're all these climate cults the the climate cartel crew i know and we know we have net net
01:41:51.580zero policies we have carbon taxes we have laws that prevent us from putting pipelines in and
01:41:59.120developing our resources i tell you keith i i wish you all the luck in the world um i think what
01:50:47.140I mean, as you were growing up, did you ever think you would live in a country that would offer made like this to people who aren't terminally ill, but to you for back pain?
01:51:01.660I know, I know. And this certainly wasn't on the books a few years ago. And people of my age, we talk about this, of course, thanks to the news media, this has become quite a story, need I say, and especially on Vancouver Island, where the incidence of MAID is very high, extremely high.
01:51:23.480So it's, well, for some reasons, the hospitals on Vancouver Island have been given this go-ahead, which we presume they're very quiet about who gives them the authority to do this, but it's presumably the hospitals want to have beds available for people that aren't at the end of life.
01:51:49.020But you're not at the end of life, Miriam.
01:51:53.480I hope to have a few more innings, if I can.
01:51:57.300I mean, they're defining end of life as end of possible, you know, the Germans used to say, how many potatoes are you making?
01:52:06.940Are you consuming more potatoes than you are, you know, than you can cull?
01:52:12.240And that's how they defined end of life, and it looks like Canada is doing the same thing as well.
01:52:17.920If you're a baby or young, you're not worth saving.
01:52:23.480And if you're, you know, if you're at the end of your productive years, you know, even close to the end of your productive years, you're out.
01:52:31.180Yeah, exactly. I think that the hospital officials took one look at the age of this is a lady in her early 80s.
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01:52:41.120And anybody I I'm sure there's a policy that says anybody over 80, give them this offer.
01:52:47.500Perhaps they will take it. And that means we're freeing up a bed.
01:52:50.960so are senior citizens disposable in canada well i'm sad to say um my sister lives just over the
01:53:02.700border in the state of washington and she said it's quite different there i mean just three hours
01:53:07.660away uh things are very different in seattle um so it's a it's a great concern to me here we are
01:53:17.680in a lovely part of Canada, a beautiful part. Vancouver Island is very special. And the
01:53:24.820hospitals in this part of BC, much less Canada, are taking this policy to its extreme edge.
01:53:36.040Are people, other Canadians, concerned about this, Miriam? Are they seeing this and going,
01:53:41.320this is not a good road. We should not be on this road.
01:53:44.820Well, the Premier of Alberta has taken action.
01:53:48.680And at the very same time that my adventure was unfolding,
01:53:53.260legislation was passed in the province of Alberta to put a few breaks on this offering of MAID.
01:54:02.740So Alberta right now is leading the way.
01:54:06.340But I would not be surprised if the press, if there's any good that comes out of this.
01:54:12.880But if all the press attention, the unexpected press attention, brings this whole thing to discussions at governments across Canada, led by Alberta, I hand it to, it's a lady premier who did this, I think that you're going to find, or we are going to find, more people falling in line about this, because they're just not, people are not happy.
01:54:39.860The reaction to this, well, you will have known, the reaction to this has been incredible.
01:54:45.740My little story, I think it just hit a moment in the news cycle where there was nothing else going on,
01:54:52.880because I'm surprised that I should end up on the front page of a national newspaper riding my horse in Guatemala.
01:55:01.600I don't know if you've seen that coverage.
01:55:04.660But it's true. That really did happen. I felt fine.
02:01:57.280I told you, you know, 1968, 69, we went to the moon and we had Altamont at the same time where everything was burning down to the ground.
02:02:05.280But we had this choice and I want to condemn people when they do things that are horrible, like Coca-Cola has.
02:02:13.000And I want to salute people when they do something great, like Coca-Cola has just done.
02:02:17.560For America's 250, they took, you know, I'd like to teach the world to sing, and they've redone and tried to do something like that in celebration of the America's 250th birthday.